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Among revolutionary elites, the main dividing popular mobilization line between moderates and radicals occurred around questions 15 concerning the reorganization of the state apparatus and the writing of a new constitution. A full rejection of the federative model of the state that had characterized the former Dutch Republic became central to the repertoire of the radical faction in the National Convention. However, instances of protest and rebellion from below, often supported by the radicals in the Convention, generally remained conspicuously local in focus. This 20 clash between national ideals and highly localized realities remains one of the central paradoxes of the Batavian Revolution. The form in which this process unfolded was peculiar to the trajectory of the Batavian Revolution, which more than any of its counterparts became centered on constitutional issues. But severe tensions between programs for the rationalization of state 25 bureaucracy along nationalizing lines and popular support for far- reaching local autonomy existed in each of the Atlantic Revolutions. In January 1797, radical democrats in Leiden fi CE: KRR QA: Coll: attempted to nd an organizational form to solve this problem. They called for a national gathering of representatives from local revolutionary clubs and neighborhood assemblies. The response by the moderate provincial and national authorities was 30 remarkably swift, and the initiative was repressed before the meeting could take place. Examining the failure of this unique attempt to bridge the divide between local popular mobilization and national revolutionary programs, as well as the discussion that followed this failure, can help us understand the possibilities and limitations of Batavian radicalism. 35 Introduction On 15 January 1797, in the midst of a growing political crisis engulfing the Batavian Repub- 40 lic that had been established in the Netherlands two years earlier, the regional govern- ment of the province of Holland took a remarkable step. Without the permission of the Batavian National Convention, and encroaching upon the jurisdiction of local authorities, provincial officers marched into the city of Leiden and arrested five well-known radical democrats. Among them were the leading Leiden radical publishers Willem van Lelyveld 45 CONTACT Karwan Fatah-Black [email protected] © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2 P. BRANDON AND K. FATAH-BLACK and Pieter Hendrik Trap. Their crime had been to sign a call for a “nation-wide assembly of neighborhood councils.”1 The aim of this gathering was to rally the lowest electoral organs, independently of the National Convention, in order to push the revolution in a more radical direction. The attempt led to panic among moderate politicians, who 50 perhaps unsurprisingly backed the regional government of Holland’s actions to quickly suppress the attempt.
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